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Messages - Wontolla

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It says he's a DJ/producer, but doesn't give any examples of his work. You'd think he'd be proud of his music, right?

I was legit curious, so I dug in and found his SoundCloud, and for the last five years, it's just "motivational" speeches. Nothing in the last five years. And what I did find has not aged well. I'm going to guess he's always been a speaker first and a producer second. Which is fine, if you want to teach people how to become a speaker, but at this point, it looks like his priorities are outside of music, and I kind of see why.

There's a lesson we can learn from this, summed up by a somewhat more legitimate artist.

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The key also tells you the "home" chord of a song. A song in C major will feel resolved, or "complete", on a C major chord.

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You Might Like... / Re: Bae's & Beats (Mashups & Edits)
« on: May 30, 2016, 12:25:48 am »
Wrong forum, this is for other people's stuff that you like.

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Mixing/Mastering / Re: Record label question!!!! please help
« on: May 26, 2016, 01:47:13 pm »
Publication: any distributor can do that for cheaper
Mastering: you can do that yourself
Promo pool packages: could mean a lot of things, none of which are worth 68€
UPC codes: standard with any type of distribution
Anti-piracy measures: won't do jack shit, believe me
Promotion: could mean anything, most likely they'll just mail your single out to a list of YouTube channels and DJs and forget about it

I'll admit the cover art sounds intriguing, but what do all their other covers look like? If it's just a fixed template with their logo and different colors and titles, run far away. That means they're too lazy to make a good cover that matches the music, and they're only interested in promoting their brand. If their logo is bigger than yours, that's what they're selling. And pulling a picture off Google Images for the background doesn't make it better.

In conclusion: not worth 68€. They probably sent the same email out to thousands of other producers. If they want that much up front for one track, they're in this to make money.

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Pretty sure that's against the terms for a lot of contests, use those stems with caution.

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Composition/Arrangement/Theory / Re: EQ cuts / EQ
« on: May 18, 2016, 02:50:54 am »
No. EQ curves are something that changes from project to project. You might be able to find diagrams of what frequencies do what in each instrument, then tweak them according to what you want, and what you're working with, but equalization is just that, equalization, and how you equalize depends on what has to be equal to what.

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Sound Design / Re: completely cutting out certain frequencies
« on: May 11, 2016, 08:41:11 pm »
Not if they're at -40dB compared to everything else. That's a factor of 100. It just doesn't look that way because of the scale.

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Sound Design / Re: completely cutting out certain frequencies
« on: May 11, 2016, 07:24:19 pm »
The only way to completely eliminate any trace of a frequency with an EQ, is to notch it out (unless you could DC as a frequency). That's just how filters work; you can reduce it below the threshold of hearing, but never remove it completely.

Here's what matters: do you still hear it? If you don't, then who cares?

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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / Re: Soundcloud Copyright Issues
« on: May 11, 2016, 05:28:33 pm »
Well, it's up to the copyright holder to decide whether to take down a track, so unless you have explicit permission to upload, there's no way to know for sure.

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my idols are against going to school for music.
Have you really looked at why they think that way, though? Most of the time someone says they don't like music theory, or formal music education, it's because it somehow limits what they can do and sets "rules"... which is bullshit. Theory doesn't tell you what you can't do, it just describes what's already there, and my high school music program was REALLY helpful when I actually had to start composing stuff.

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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: Why you start producing?
« on: May 10, 2016, 10:42:15 pm »
So I'd have something to do with all the stuff I wrote.

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Samples/Plugins/Software/Gear / Re: Kick used before drop?
« on: May 10, 2016, 10:40:23 pm »
This?

https://youtu.be/1a1s3iPkV7M?t=1m30s

That sounds like a snare/clap layer with a lot of lows, not a kick.

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Sound Design / Re: Tips For Making Your Own Beats
« on: April 28, 2016, 04:28:44 pm »
1. East West/ Quantum leaps plugins. These are a bit pricey to purchase outright but they have a new producer cloud now that is only $30 a month and give you access to the entire database of sounds.

2. Sylinth plugin. This is one of the top notch synthesizer plugins in todays market and have been for some time now. If you look hard enough you can even find data banks that add to the content of sounds within the plugins.

3. Blu Cats Audio Suite. This is a must have and contains over 90 different plugins from equalizing to limiters, Gate effects and Compressors; Basically everything you'll ever need to help improve the quality of each sound you will have it in this plugin suite (Highly Recommended)[/url]
1) Other than the fact that EWQL is mostly orchestral sounds, $30 a month for producers living off an allowance from their parents? Have you lost your goddamn mind?
2) Congratulations on getting the name wrong.
3) Congratulations on not being able to spell "Blue Cat".
Your copy/paste self-promo wall of text needs a little work.

E: and while we're here... Really? I tell people to make their own sounds, and not rely on sample packs, but nobody says someone "can't make their own beats" if they go to premade sounds once in a while to save time. Have fun making a snare without at least one sample. (It's possible, but again, aren't there things you'd rather use your time for?)
Learning piano isn't essential to being able to produce, but it does have tons of advantages!  :)
Completely true.
or theory
Less true. Music theory covers everything in composition. People love to brag about how they didn't need it because they don't know they do. Music theory isn't tritone substitutions and four part counterpoint, it's basic things like scales and chords.
And rhythms.
Yeah. If you want to have the tiniest chance of doing anything interesting, theory is kind of important.

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Would lucid dreaming help? Technically you're unconscious the whole time, and I've heard people use it to write.

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You're going to see the same few progressions a lot regardless of genre.
Screenshots won't really tell you much from a distance, other than voicing.

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